Clothes-rack.



No. 691.368. Patented Jan. 2|, I902.

s. EAST. CLOTHES RACK.

(Application filed Mar. 28, 1901.)

(No Modal.)

wit lame UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL EAST, OF HARBOR BEACH, MICHIGAN.

CLOTH ES-RAC K.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 691,368, dated January21, 1902.

Application filed March 23,1901. Serial No- 62,58'7. (No model.)

To (Z6 whom it may concern:

Be it known that LSAMUEL EAsT,a cit izen of the United States, residingat Harbor Beach, in the county of Huron and State of Michigan, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Racks, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to racks adapted to be secured to a wall to serveas a convenient support for clothes or other articles; and the primaryobject of the invention is to provide a clothes rack which may bereadily folded against the wall when not required for use and willafford ample room for hanging clothes when turned down to horizontalposition.

The invention comprises one or more hinged bars bent to bail form and soconstructed as c to maintain a horizontal position when turned down awayfrom the Wall.

The invention further consists in a plurality of independently-hingedbails supported one above the other in parallel relation,whereby one ormore of said bails may be used, as desired.

.The invention also consists in certain details of construction whichwill be fully described hereinafter in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, which form part of this specification, and whose novelfeatures will be defined in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a clothes-rack embodyingthe invention as it appears when folded against its wall-supports. Fig.2 is an end elevation of the same, showing the hinged bars comprisingthe rack turned down in position for use. Fig. 3 is a detailperspective, on an enlarged scale, of one end of one of the bars; andFig. 4 is a detail side elevation of the pivoted catch for supportingthe bars in their folded position.

The reference-numerals 1 and 2 designate two inclined diverging barsadapted to be socured to a wall by screws 3 or other suitable securingmeans. To each of the bars 1 and 2 is secured one or more plates 4:,bent to form loops or keepers 5 to receive the inwardlybent arms 6 of abail 7. While a single bail would constitute a complete and operativedevice, I preferably employa plurality of such 0 bails, as shown in thedrawings, said bails varying in size and arranged one above the other inparallel relation. This necessitates the employment of a plurality ofplates 4, arranged in horizontally-alined pairs, as clearly shown inFig. 1. The ends of each bail are bent inward to form the arms .6 andthen downward and outward to form stops 8, which abut against the plates4: when the bails are turned down for use to support the latter inhorizontal position.

Adjacent to the upper end'of one of the supporting-bars a catch 9 ispivotally secured by a screw 10, said catch preferably consisting of astrip of metal bent upon itself, as best shown in Figs. 2 and 4, andhaving its longer arm of sufficient length to overlap all of the bailswhen the latter are in folded position, thus enabling one or all of saidbails to be held by a single securing-catch.

A characteristic of the inventionis that the parallel bails aresupported one above another, thus rendering the device more convenientin use than if all of the bails were on the same plane.

The utility and operation of the improvement will be obvious from thedrawings, and it will be apparent that one-or more of the hinged bailsmay be used as occasion requires, the remaining bails being held in folded position against the Wall.

The diverging bars 1 and 2 are not essential elements of the device, asthe plates 4: may, if preferred, be secured directly to the wall orother support.

'I claim-- The combination with diverging bars adapt- SAMUEL EAST.

Witnesses:

LIZZIE OAUGBELL, O. H. KUOHENBECKER.

